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Tag Archives: Arabic
Omaret yakobean AKA The Yacoubian Building (2006) Marwan Hamed, Adel Imam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Read More »
We Are the Bus People AKA Ehna Betoa El Otobees (1979) Hussein Kamal, Adel Emam, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Saeed Abdulghani
Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station Read More »
Slingshot Hip Hop (2008) Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri
Palestinian youth write and perform hip hop in the ’48 (what they call Israel) and the occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank). Read More »
Razzia (2017) Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani, Arieh Worthalter, Amine Ennaji
The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one. Read More »
Four Daughters AKA Les filles d’Olfa (2023) Kaouther Ben Hania, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. Read More »
Bent familia (1997) Nouri Bouzid, Amel Hedhili, Nadia Kaci, Leila Nassim
Three modern North African women on the brink of self-awareness discover the power of friendship. Read More »
The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua AKA La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (1979) Assia Djebbar
Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war Read More »
Bitter Bread (2019) Abbas Fahdel
Chronicles of daily life in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. Read More »
Wanderers of the Desert AKA El-haimoune (1984) Nacer Khemir, Soufiane Makni, Noureddine Kasbaoui
A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious Read More »